2022 End of Year Update

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 I took a break from the monthly updates basically because there was nothing of note to report.

  • The market was still down
  • My portfolio was still generating around $500 a month in dividends.
But I thought I would do a December update and a year end summary.

So December saw my highest monthly amount, $532, thanks to some quarterly returns coming in.


For 2022 as a whole, I received $5,737 of dividends into my TFSA accounts, compared to $1,491 for 2021, my first year of this investing approach.

The total cash invested in my TFSAs is $77,532 and its current value is $71,433 so down $6,089 overall. However, my total dividend income since starting this is $7,228 so I'm still in profit overall. But I'm not particularly concerned with the drop in portfolio value as I have no plans to sell anything and the market will recover at some point.

And in other shock news, I actually managed to make a couple of sales of my t-shirt designs over at Redbubble (https://www.redbubble.com/users/WeeGemTees). That little side venture has brought me almost $30 over the year!

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